On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, Dan Drazen wrote:
> > Saturday Night Live? What are you talking about? I thought "Happy Fun Fox"
> > was just something you guys made up.
> >
>
> And the pitch:
>
> The HFF phrase is based on an SNL mock commercial for "Super Happy Fun
> Ball" -- the joke was that the "commercial" consisted of about 10
> seconds of advertisement for a toy ball and about 90 seconds of legal
> disclaimers [e.g., not to leave it out of its container, how it's being
> used in the Gulf War against Iraq, etc -- which dates the commercial --
> and the disclaimer: "Do not taunt Super Happy Fun Ball."].
So it _IS_ an origional idea. Great! I don't think that is infringement.
Linking Tails to Super Happy Fun Ball is quite a stretch.
I did see that on SNL, but never recalled "Fox" in the name anywhere.. :-)
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